Registration is now open for this year's LASR Workshop, "Quantitative Biology, Shape Analysis, and Wavelets", which will be held in Leeds from Monday 4th to Wednesday 6th July. As usual the workshop format is a mixture of invited and contributed talks, and posters. It has a tradition of being informal and relaxed, and of encouraging interaction and discussion between the participants. Confirmed speakers at LASR-2005 include Philip Brown (Statistics, University of Kent) Wally Gilks (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) Peter Green, FRS (Statistics, University of Bristol) Richard Jackson (Bioinformatics, University of Leeds) Valen Johnson (Biostatistics, University of Michigan) David Jones (Bioinformatics, University College London) John Kent (Statistics, University of Leeds) Sir John Kingman, FRS (Newton Institute, University of Cambridge) Kanti Mardia (Statistics, University of Leeds) Andrew Neuwald (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) David Westhead (Bioinformatics, University of Leeds) More details are available on the workshop web site, http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2005 The registration fees, which include refreshments, lunches, and a copy of the workshop proceedings, are Early registration (valid up to 31st May 2005): 165 GBP (students 135) Late registration (from 1st June 2005): 195 GBP (students 165). This year, we are moving to electronic registration. You can register by filling in the form on the web site http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/lasr2005/regform.html Stuart. -- Dr Stuart Barber, LASR Workshop, Department of Statistics, tel: 0113 343 5146 University of Leeds, e-mail: [log in to unmask] Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/workshop